Trying to get my head around it
Since nobody reads this blog it is freeing to know that I am not required to be concerned about critiques or sounding like the idiot some village lost. I can be my own village idiot, but that is as far as it goes.
Some questions are now arising in my pea brain now that I have sobered up from the total high of the 2012 Election outcome. These questions have always been around, it's true. They are not new. Questions such as: Why do they call social safety net programs "Entitlement"? Is that careful word-crafting to create the illusion that recipients want something for nothing? They are social safety nets, plain and simple.
God, what would America look like without social safety nets? Definitely, She would not be as socially stable as She is today. We would have a much larger class of people in dire need. People in medical crisis, people with no hope ... where would they in order to survive?
And yet, as the House Republicans gird their loins to protect the super-wealthy tax breaks I cannot get my head around why the tax benefits to the super wealthy are not called "Entitlement" Programs. These "creators" or "makers" create jobs alright ... just not here in the USofA. THEN, after they have shipped off the jobs of American workers, they hide their huge profits offshore. They use every resource the law offers to protect them from contributing to America's stability and prosperity for all, but resent paying their percentage.
Just can't get my head around it ...
1 comment:
Questions well asked and I think you hit the nail on the head. Perhaps all of us would benefit from a time walking in each others shoes. Maya Angelo says it so eloquently. "I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility."
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